its 11 pm on sunday, jan 22nd, and im sitting in my hotel room in london watching shitty tv, a bit jetlagged, and strangely excited to start this tour. i flew out of NYC last night at 10pm, boarded a 6 hr flight on Virgin, and arrived in LNDN(ill be referring to london as LNDN from here on out) at 1030 am…. when we landed i bought a coke and a magazine on iphone tips & tricks, mainly for my manager, john, who cant seem to learn it for the life of him. we met my tour manager, michael, outside and shortly after hopped into a cab. john wanted the front seat but ended up hopping in the driver seat (its opposite here) and was yelled at by the driver. FAIL #1. check. we got into the hotel and i took a shower. mike & i went to the mall across the street. i walked into a vans store and 3 girls who worked there just stared at me. at first i thought they hated me. then they knew who i was. swag. check. walked around a bit. bought a sim card. and had some espresso before i fucking crashed in the middle of everything. my phone wasnt working all day :( luckily i got a lil bit of net in the mall to send some texts and upload a picture. not having a working phone makes you appreciate your surroundings. i was forced to pay attention to details instead of mindlessly browsing the internet. on the plus side, i now have a blackberry for intl calls and my iphone. oh ya, the last time i was here i was a virgin. 

i think thats funny.

everyone kept saying how bad the food would be, but its not that bad. i went back to the hotel, took a 1 hr nap, hopped on fb, and ordered a jalapeno burger with ranch. they forgot the ranch. ugh. i didnt bother ringing room service again so i used mayo and ketchup (eh). it was ok. a friend came by, grabbed a drink, rolled a joint while john & i talked about some of the shows, and then went downstairs and smoked. the weed here isnt amazing but itll do. its finally sinking in ill be in a few different countries for the next 2 weeks. the currency. the accents. the languages. the foods. the people. 

although its hard to leave the people you love at home, its nice knowing your pretty much on your own halfway across the world. i walk around and everything is new. i have no emotional attachments to my surroundings. nothing has happened to me here, bad or good, so it doesnt alter my perception to the things around me. i take in everything for what it is. i love that. growing up in the same place, eating at the same restaurants, shopping at the same malls, seeing the same people. we connect places with events, events with emotions, and emotions dictate the outcome of a situation/activity. 

im not only lucky i get to experience all of this at a young age, im grateful that there are people in the world who made this all possible for me. it is ultimately up to them if i can afford a plane ticket and a hotel room or not. if i can eat for the day. if they dont buy a ticket i cant play a show. it may sound cliche and blahblahblahfuckoffandstopbloggingfaggot but i gives no fucks. i love waking up in different places everyday and i dont ever want to settle into a routine. 

there will be more of these. peppered with misspelled words, photos and videos. if you dont live under a rock and follow any of my social networks youll be able to see it all pimpin’. 

miss yall

thanks for listening 

heres the show schedule for the tour! 

DUBLIN - JAN 25// LONDON - JAN 27//PARIS - JAN 29// AMSTERDAM - JAN 30// BERLIN - JAN 31// MUNICH FEB 1// LONDON - FEB 3//

go to http://www.facebook.com/ilovetmills?sk=events for tix and more info

-million